This is probably one of the strangest videos I’ll ever do.
We’re talking about dream analysis, using art to get into your unconscious, tarot readings, self-help practices, and examining the metaphors that rule our lives.
How To Analyse Your Dreams
Works that inspired this video:
- Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols (link) (review)
- Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (link)
- George Lakoff’s Metaphors We Live By (link)
- Milton Erickson’s My Voice Will Go With You (link)
- Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (link) (review)
- Wall Street Playboy’s ‘How to Use Art to Make Decisions’ (link) (review)
Questions to ask yourself when analysing your dreams (timestamp = 9:43):
- What are the core/key/most striking images of the dream?
- How are the images connected?
- Can you think of at least three potential meanings of the symbols?
- What was the mood of the dream? What emotions did you feel?
- Did the dream highlight a wish or ambition? Or did it work through a fear?
- What obstacles did you face in the dream?
- Could anything in the dream be read metaphorically?
- Did the dream leave a question unanswered or present you with a decision to be made?
The 5-Day Practice Core Questions (timestamp = 10:25):
- What do you get from ___? What’s the payoff?
- What will it cost you?
- What would it mean for you to have no ___ at all?
- What evidence do you have for this?
Supplemental Questions:
- What is the meaning of ___?
- What is the story you are holding regarding all of this?
- What can you do as a matter of practice to ensure the holding of a preferred story?
And, to top it all off, here’s my recommend tarot deck:
- Ethereal Visions Illuminated Tarot Deck (link)